Lust Have It - Feb 2013

First time I've tried Lust Have It.  I've subscribed to BellaBox since the start I think, but never gave it too much thought, it was a nice surprise when it arrived every month, and always fun to see what's inside and test new stuff.  I must confess I love beauty products, but over the past year or two I've tried to confine myself to things like Paul and Joe, Clinique and anything vintage-y styled.  I've started reading the beauty blogs where girls review their purchases and the sample beauty boxes and they're a lot of fun.

Anyway, I was a bit disappointed that Australia Post appears to have played football with my parcel...although happily it doesn't seem to have affected any of the contents.

There's been a few complaints on the FB page about this particular box, but in all honesty, I think people are just whinging. Maybe a full size fake tan isn't your thing, but to get it when it's worth 29.95 and a full size nail polish that's worth 9.99 still seems to be to be pretty good value for $15. Of course you're not going to always like/be able to use what's in the box...it's a beauty lucky dip...and if you're so hung up on not getting what you want, just take your money, go shopping and buy EXACTLY what you want. Me, I like the surprise element of these boxes and I just see it as a bit of fun in the mail every month, for the cost of about three take-away coffees.

Things are afoot

David Jones Winter beauty bag

After this post and this post alerted me to the existence of this great offer at DJ's, I staggered down to the Bourke St Mall in my lunch hour and picked one up. What beauty product did I buy to qualify for the offer? An adorable shower cap, hehe. Big spender, huh?  I had a bit of a snoop around, but the range was a bit overwhelming and I was a bit wobbly (due to an infection in my leg), so I bought something I NEEDED and left it at that. The OPI bar was very appealing, but again, couldn't commit to a colour. I must say I'm delighted at the colour of the nailpolish...I actually went through the bags on offer until I found it. Another blogger has reviewed it here, and I understand what she means, about it looking a different colour in the bottle compared with on your nails, as it is more olive than blue... but that said, I still really love it. I'll have to check what the name of it is again (aforementioned blog reminded me that it's 'Just Spotted the Lizard'), I know it's in the Spiderman mini-pack (which I almost bought). My only gripe with it is that you need lots of coats to get decent coverage...I've put 3 on so far and it still looks patchy. I haven't tried any of the other products yet, besides the David Jones brand moisturiser, which is lovely...I really like their brand of skin care and makeup, it's very good quality and very well priced. Anyway, just a bit of indulgence for me on a day where I was feeling very ordinary, so a good quick pick-me-up never goes astray!